[12B]

This is actually a good idea. Safety belts are made for adult-sized people. A "booster seat" is just one of those styrofoam thingies which adjusts the child's height to the seat belt. They only cost about $10.00. It ain't a big deal. Unless you really want to make it into a big deal.

[d-back]

Ten bucks for a booster seat? My eye. Try thirty to a hundred.

That one costs fifty.

And if you want to stuff your seven year old in one, 12B, be my guest. Just don't tell me to put my seven year old into one. I mean, seven year olds are in second grade, for cryin' out loud. Who's the parent here--me or the State of New Jersey?

Bear in mind that New Jersey's Supreme Court found that it was "unconstitutional" to require abortionists to notify a parent before sucking a baby out of your teenage girl's uterus. This new "seatbelt" law now requires drivers to make sure their seventeen year old daughter is wearing a seatbelt, but that same parent has no "right" to know if an abortionist is going to operate on his daughter.

Old enough for abortion, not old enough to sit in a car without a seatbelt. Go figure that one.

[Dr. Frank fan]

This is actually a good idea.

Why are there always one or two people on these threads who can't tell the difference between "it is a good idea for people to do X" and "it is a good idea for the law to FORCE people to do X"?

12B, it is a Good Idea for people to get a certain amount of exercise each day. Does that mean it should become law, with under-exercisers cited and/or arrested?

Let me know....